rio tinto

www.businessweek.com — The Chinese aluminum company Chinalco owns about 9 percent of Rio Tinto, which has been transformed by China's demand for iron ore into the second-largest miner in the world. Rio Tinto, which had a net income of $1.4 billion in 2003, now earns more than $10 billion a year, and 70 percent of those profits are from iron ore.

www.ft.com — If you want to flog something, it helps to speak your buyers' language. Hence Australia, purveyor of commodities to China, is governed by Chinese-speaking Kevin Rudd . US Treasury secretary Tim Geithner , obliged to park huge tranches of US debt with the People's Bank of China, is another Mandarin speaker.

www.chinapost.com.tw — CANBERRA -- Australia told China to rein in its diplomats on Tuesday, after Beijing's Canberra embassy tried to block a speech by an exiled Uighur leader, adding to strained relations over China's spy allegations against Rio Tinto.

az-china.com — Rio Tinto: All foreign staff to leave China. BHP Billiton, similar. Monopolistic companies flee China fearing fallout from the establishment of a monopolistic competitor.

player.sbs.com.au — The Australian opposition says the government must push the Chinese government to release Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu who has been arrested on charges of espionage and bribery.